ArgentLuna

Trapdoors are vanilla

I do whole separate farms for Flax to to ramp its production up instead of being tied to the Mixed veg rotation. Only when starting out is it in with anything else.

Tend to do without Armour till I can get farming going well and the Flax farm in particular as i prefer tailored Gambeson overall. Before the change to armour in terms of being able to repair it I didn't see the effort in making the heavier Metal ones, post change its a long term project to consider but still will preferably rock the Gambeson for general wear

Starting a new world you can delay the onset of Rifts/drifters by a margin. Natural hostile creatures are just there and a not ramped up or such. a forest start is going to be a big challenge compared to a plains etc

Unless its changed again in the later iterations the spawn rate seems in 18.1 to be significantly higher than 1.16 ~ i have 9 trees in a small area of forest that ive found and overall when exploring a lot more about the place.

Vanilla wise its fine but there is also a good mod that lets you recoup the "lost bits" and also lets you recycle the broken tools somewhat.

Even without gravity on its useful to have and mark as different from the surrounding landscape

There is plaster walls ~ needs all the Lime and all the time

Good to know, something do do then in spring

I wish I could encourage the grass to grow back (and shrubs I wish) ~ had a bit of a incident with a pit kiln and the plain i live near is very plain now

I'd love to see Water mills but with some way in place that it has to be Naturally generated flowing water rather than player placed which is too easy to do in terms of making water generation happen. How that would work I have no idea.

Candles are for placing or using to make Lanterns (mouse over and press H on the candle to see the recipe). The Torch holders make Torches not burn out and are good in places you want to have a fire source readily available like your Kitchen or Forge. You can also make your own eventually when you have the right materials and set up.

or collected from the many ruins that dot the land

Would be good for there to be a reason to use a raft, there is no point to it presently in my mind if i can just swim to where ever with no concern

Not everything need to be useful, just having it in the world for variety is good enough

Convenience of material in one place ~ anything i use a lot of and have a lot of gets a crate ~ Sticks, grass, logs, dirt, clays, stones to name a few. Current world i have only 2 made crates and 16 aged ones ive found.

Often. my current storage room is lined with aged crates ive found just waiting for me to fill them, The one of the server i play on has a crate for each rock type we have found plus many more things we gather and use in bulk

Have you filled the area around it with flowers? That will speed up the process greatly. I got one the other day and with 92 flowers places around it i had it full in a day.

Had a similar thing when we updated to 1.18 from 1.16 on the server i was on. We restarted the server and it cleared up (but there were other game stopping errors that we found after that involving invisible items)

I always carry at least a stack of packed dirt. Just so many things you can do with a easily places and relatively easy to remove block. From filling gaps/holes in terrain to building shelter while out in the world. Fill between better presenting blocks when building. Once you get past a certain point you do just throw it away but its always good to have some in a chest.

Always carry a stack of packed dirt. useful for a large range of tasks and easy to make and just as easy to leave behind as needed.

Out in the world i just build a Bunker to hunker in and at home i retreat to the pantry and put down a couple of dirt blocks to seal the stairs to the cellar

Had to remake my shortsword and shears as they were not displaying properly with the update from 16 to 17. Not much else yet as im preferably waiting for my friend to be available to play now that our time zones are 2hours closer together.

i keep a supply for making hoes in case i need to expand my gardens

All that is already down there, sure not in every cave and shouldn't be but Ive found some amazing things underground and many minerals down there with it all.